Overview
- Brings boundary breaking perspectives of student assessment
- Studies assessment that balances creativity and realism
- Provides solutions to assessment challenges
- Questions and imagines assessment alternatives
- Places assessment in the service of a thriving civil society
Part of the book series: Studies in Educational Leadership (SIEL, volume 15)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book presents a new and refreshing look at student assessment from the perspective of leading educational theorists, researchers, and practitioners. The authors call for boundary-breaking assessment that reflects clear understandings of the purposes of assessment, a balance of assessment creativity and realism, the ability to detect solutions for assessment challenges, and the capacity to question and imagine assessment alternatives.
The 14 chapters offer school and district educators, policy makers, researchers, and university teacher preparation faculty with a comprehensive, current overview of the state and art of student assessment. Key questions are posed about assessment and critical challenges are presented along with sound evidence-based solutions.
Student assessment is analyzed in terms of its relationship with classroom instructional practices and large-scale testing programs. Formative and summative assessments are compared and contrasted. The role of psychological assessment in informing classroom practices is profiled along with the need for student voice in fair assessment practices.
Readers will be challenged to consider the ecology of student assessment, that is, the impact of assessment in classrooms and schools through to the macro level of globalized societies. The underpinning values and assumptions of student assessment are highlighted. Finally, a rationale is offered for reconceptualizing and redefining assessment.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Leading Student Assessment
Editors: Charles F. Webber, Judy L. Lupart
Series Title: Studies in Educational Leadership
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1727-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-1726-8Published: 20 September 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3811-9Published: 27 November 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-1727-5Published: 18 September 2011
Series ISSN: 1572-3909
Series E-ISSN: 2543-0130
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 304
Topics: Administration, Organization and Leadership, Assessment, Testing and Evaluation, Education, general